Muzak

Muzak is a skill for the Amazon Echo that provides control over a Logitech (Squeezebox) Media Server.

How To Use

Configuration:

• Create an Alexa skill to use to connect to your server using the provided files in speechAssets. Note: you will need to modify Players.txt to match the names of the players in your network and use it to populate a custom slot.
• Copy the provided config.js-sample file and enter the required values to allow the skill to connect to your squeezebox server. Save as config.js.
• This should include the URL and credentials for your Logitech Media Server and the App ID of the Alexa skill created above
• Run npm install to download npm dependencies.

Publish the Skill

With Claudia.js

• Set up your AWS credentials following the instructions here.
• Run claudia create --region us-east-1 --handler muzak.handler
• Note: If you already have an existing Lambda function for muzak, you can pass the name of your function to claudia create using the --name parameter.
• You can publish future code changes by simply executing claudia update --name muzak --region us-east-1 --handler muzak.handler.

Manually

• Create a function in Amazon Lambda
• In the muzak top level directory Zip up the files to upload to Lambda zip -r muzak.zip muzak.js config.js node_modules

Commands:

• Start Player Starts the named player using the last played song or playlist
• Stop Player Stops the named player
• Set Volume Sets the volume of the named player to the given level between 0 and 100
• Increase/decrease volume Increases or decreases the volume of the named player by 10
• Sync Players Syncs the first named player to the second
• Unsync Player Unsyncs the named player
• Whats Playing Returns information about the current song playing on the named player
• Name My Players Return a list of all the player names in your network
• Randomize Player Starts the named player using a random song
• Previous Track Plays the previous track using the named player
• Next Track Plays the next track using the named player
• Help List all the commands that can be said

Interactive Mode:

An interactive mode is supported where multiple commands may be issued in one session. The target player is remembered between requests so that it does not have to be specified. e.g.

• "Alexa open muzak"
• "select player1"
• "play"
• "set volume to 25"
• "exit"

Credits

• This skill uses an enhanced version of Piotr Raczynski's squeezenode Node.JS module. It has been modified to support basic HTTP authentication as well as some additional functionality